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WAN  STACK 

BILL  AND  REPORT  OF  JOHN  A.  BINGHAM, 


AND    VOTE    ON    ITS    PASSAGE, 


REPEALING  THE  TERRITORIAL  NEW  MEXICAN  LAWS  ESTABLISHING 
SLAVERY  AND  AUTHORIZING  EMPLOYERS  TO  WHIP  "WHITE1  PER 
SONS"  AND  OTHERS  IN  THEIR  EMPLOYMENT,  AND  DENYING  THEM 
REDRESS  IN  THE  COURTS. 


The  laws  thus  repealed  by  the  people's  Rep 
resentatives  in  Congress  are  herein  set  forth. 
The  vote  on  the  passage  of  the  bill  in  the  House, 
on  the  10th  May,  1860,  is  also  set  out.  All  who 
voted  for  the  passage  of  the  bill  are  Republi 
cans,  and  all  who  voted  against  its  passage  are 
Democrats  or  South  Americans,  except  Mr. 
THAYER,  of  Massachusetts. 

The  white  slave  code  of  New  Mexico,  it  will 
be  seen,  subjects  and  authorizes  all  white  labor 
ing  men  and  women  to  be  whipped  by  their 
employers,  and  denies  them  any  redress  for 
such  outrages  in  courts  of  justice.  (See  sec.  4 
of  act  regulating  masters  and  servants.) 

The  black  slave  code  allows  any  person  to 
arrest  any  one  whom  he  calls  an  absconding 
slave,  by  force,  and  without  any  legal  process 
from  any  court  or  magistrate,  and  to  deliver 
such  person  so  arrested  to  the  sheriff  of  the 
county  in  which  the  arrest  may  be  made,  which 
sheriff  shall  imprison  such  person  for  six 
months,  (without  a  commitment,)  and  advertise 
for  a  master,  awd  if  no  master  corne,  shall  im 
prison  six  months  longer,  and  advertise  for 
sale  5  and  at  the  end  of  twelve  months  impris 
onment,  the  sheriff  shall  sell  such  person,  at 
the  door  of  the  jail  or  court-house,  to  the  high 
est  bidder,  for  cash,  and  his  bill  of  sale  "  shall 
vest  in  the  purchaser  a  good  and  indefeasible 
title  against  all  persons  whatever,"  not  except 
ing  the  sold  man's  right  to  himself! 

The  following  letter,  from  Hon.  MIGUEL  A. 
OTERO,  the  Delegatein  Congress  of  New  Mexico, 
of  date  16th  December,  1858,  to  A.  M.  Jackson, 
shows  that  this  slave  code  had  its  origin  in 


Congressional,  Southern,  and  Executive  inter 
vention  : 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  D.  C., 

December  16,  1858. 

SIR  :  I  have  been  requested  by  General  R. 
DAVIS,  of  Mississippi,  to  write  you  a  letter,  re 
questing  you  to  draw  up  an  act  tor  the  protec 
tion  of  property  in  slaves  in  New  Mexico,  and 
cause  the  same  to  be  passed  by  our  Legislature. 

I  know  that  the  laws  of  the  United  Suites, 
the  Constitution,  and  the  decision  of  the  Su 
preme  Court  in  the  Dred  Scott  case,  establishes 
property  in  slaves  in  the  Territories,  but  I  think 
something  should  be  done  on  the  part  of  our 
Legislature  to  protect  it  You  will  perceive  at 
once  the  advantages  that  will  result  from  the 
passage  of  such  a  law  for  our  Territory,  aud  I 
expect  you  will  take  good  care  to  procure  its 


Immediately  after  its  passage,  you  will  dis 
patch  copies  to  all  the  principal  newspapers  in 
the  Southern  States  for  publication,  and  also  a 
copy  to  the  New  York  Herald  "  very  quick." 

Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 
MIG.  ANT'O  OTERO. 
Hon.  A.  If.  Jackso?i, 

Secretanj  of  the  Teiritory  of  New  Mexico. 

The  following  extract  from  a  letter  written 
by  a  resident  of  the  Territory,  to  a  member  of 
j  the  present  House  of  Representatives,  dated 
|  Barclay's  Fort,  New  Mexico,  April  10,  18GO, 
!  will  show  the  demon  spirit  of  the  'slave  driver 
i  and  man  stealer  : 

u  At  my  solicitude,  Judge  Keithly  (who  was 
Speaker  of  the  House  ot  Representatives  in  the 
!  Legislature  of  New  Mexico)  introduced  a  bill 
I  for  the  repeal  of  the  slavery  law,  but  as  ho  is  a 
,  plain,  honest,  straight  forward  old  farmer,  he 
'  took  no  steps  to  get  backers  amongst  the  other 


810 


members  of  the  Legislature,  holding  that  the 
bill  was  certain  to  pass  on  its  own  merits. 

"The  introduction  of  the  bill  came  like  a 
thunder-clap  on  those  corrupt  office-holders  who 
had  procured  the  passage  of  this  law,  and  a 
Santa  Fean  arose  in  his  place,  and  moved  that 
the  bill  (of  repeal)  be  rejected  at  once.  This 
motion  found  no  favor  in  the  House,  and  they 
proceeded  to  the  discussion  of  the  bill,  Judge 
Keithly  making  a  speech  in  its  favor,  iu  which 
he  was  supported  ably  by  two  Mexicans,  who 
advocated  its  passage.  The  opposition  (to  the 
repeal)  having  nothing  to  say,  and  dreading 
the  result  of  a  free  discussion  ot;  the  question  on 
public  opinion,  the  House  adjourned.  * 
What  they  despaired  of  effecting  in  the  House, 
they  determined  to  accomplish  by  an  outside 
pressure.  Government  officials  kept  open  house 
that  uight.  John  Barleycorn  did  his  work,  and 
'mint  drops'  were  freely  administered  where 
other  means  failed.  *  *  *  One  of  the  Mexi 
cans,  who  advocated  the  passage  of  the  bill 


(for  repeal)  was  brought  over  by  the  promise 
of  the  Speakership.  The  result  was,  that  on 
entering  the  House  the  following  morning, 
Judge  Keithly  was  presented  with  a  note  by 
the  Doorkeeper,  informing  him  that  the  Speak 
er's  chair  was  vacant,  and  the  member  above 
mentioned  (the  Mexican)  was  at  once  installed 
in  the  chair.  Judge  Keithly  entered  a  solemra 
protest  against  these  summary  proceedings,  and 
defended  his  right  to  express  his  own  opinions, 
and  those  of  the  people  he  was  sent  to  rep 
resent,  but  could  gain  no  hearing.  He  de 
manded  that  the  proceedings  in  his  case  should 
be  entered  on  the  journal  of  the  House,  but 
this  was  refused.  He  resigned  his  seat,  and 
returned  home,  heartily  disgusted  with  the  lead 
ers  of  the  party  with  which  he  had  previously 
acted.  He  now  understands  exactly  what  Na 
tional  Democracy  means." 

Mr.  DOUGLAS  made  his  boast  in  the  Senate, 
in  his  speech  of  the  16th  May,  1860,  that  the 
South  had,  by  squatter  sovereignty,  gained  ter-* 
ritory  to  slavery  in  New  Mexico. 

In  the  House  of  Representatives,  February  j 
16,  1860,  Mr.  BINGHAM,  on  leave,  introduced  j 
the  following  bill  ^ 

A  bill  to  disapprove  and  declare  null  and  void  all  Territorial 
acts  and  parts  of  acts  heretofore  passed  by  the  Legislative 
Assembly  of  New  Mexico  which  establish,  protect,  or  le 
galize  involuntary  servitude  or  slavery  within  said  Terri 
tory,  except  as  punishment  for  crime,  upon  due  convic 
tion. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of 
Representatives  of  the  United  States  of  America 
in  Congress  assembled,  That  all  acts  and  parts 
of  acts  heretofore  passed  by  the  Legislative 
Assembly  of  the  Territory  of  New  Mexico 
which  in  any  wise  protect,  authorize,  or  legalize 
involuntary  servitude,  or  the  enslavement  of 
human  beings  within  said  Territory,  (except  as 
punishment  for  crime,  upon  due  conviction,) 
be,  and  the  same  are  hereby,  disapproved  by 


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the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  and  declared 
to  be  null  and  void,  and  of  no  efiect. 

SEC.  2.  And  be  it  farther  enacted,  That  the 
following  provision  of  the  act  of  said  Legisla 
tive  Assembly,  approved  January  26,  1859,  en 
titled  "  An  act  amendatory  of  the  law  relative 
to  contracts  between  masters  and  servants," 
be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  disapproved,  and 
declared  inoperative  and  void,  to  wit :  u  No 
court  of  this  Territory  shall  have  jurisdiction 
nor  shall  take  cognizance  of  any  cause  for  the 
correction  that  masters  may  give  their  servants 
for  neglect  of  their  duties  as  servants." 

SEC.  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  sec 
tions  two,  three,  four,  five,  seven,  eight,  ten, 
eleven,  twelve,  thirteen,  fourteen,  fifteen,  nine 
teen,  twenty,  twenty-one,  twenty-two,  twenty- 
five,  twenty-six,  twenty-seven,  and  twenty-nine, 
of  the  act  entitled,  "  An  act  to  provide  for  the 
protection  of  property  in  slaves  in  this  Terri 
tory,"  passed  by  said  Legislative  Assembly  of 
said  Territory,  and  approved  February  3d,  1859, 


be,  and  the  same  are  hereby,  disapproved  by 
Congress,  and  declared  null  and  void  ;  and  all 
courts  and  Territorial  or  Federal  officers  within 
said  Territory  are  hereby  prohibited  from  exer 
cising  any  authority  under  or  by  virtue  of  any 
of  the  said  sections  of  said  Territorial  acts. 

The  following  is  the  vote  on  the  final  pas 
sage  of  the  foregoing  bill : 

Yeas,  [Republicans]  —  Charles  F.  Adams, 
Mass. ;  Cyrus  Aldrich,  Minn. ;  John  B.  Alley, 
Mass.;  James  M.  Ashley,  Ohio;  Elijah  Bab 
bitt,  Pa. ;  Charles  L.  Beale,  N.  Y. ;  John  A. 
Bingham,  Ohio;  Samuel  S.  Blair,  Pa.;  Har 
rison  G.  Blake,  Ohio;  William  D.  Brayton,  R. 
I. ;  James  Buffinton,  Mass.  ;  Anson  Burlin- 
game,  Mass. ;  Alfred  A.  Burnham,  Conn. ;  Mar 
tin  Butterfield,  N.  Y. ;  James  H.  Campbell,  Pa. ; 
John  Carey,  Ohio;  Charles  Case,  Ind.;  Clark 
B.  Cochrane,  N.  Y. ;  Schuyler  Colfax,  Ind.; 
Roscoe  Conkling,  N.  Y.  ;  John  C  )vode,  Pa. ; 
Henry  L.  Dawes,  Mass. ;  Charles  Delano,  Mass. ; 
R.  Holland  Duell,  N.  Y.;  W.  McKee  Dunn, 
Ind.;  Sidney  Edgerton,  Ohio;  Thomas  M.  Ed 
wards,  N.  H.  ;  Thomas  D.  Eliot,  Mass. ;  Alfred 
Ely,  N.  Y. ;  John  F.  Furnsworth,  111. ;  Reuben 


phen  C.  Foster,  Me. ;  Augustus  Frank,  N.  Y. ; 
Ezra  B.  French,  Me. ;  Daniel  W.  Gooch,  Mass.; 
Galusha  A.  Grow,  Pa. ;  John  A.  Gurley,  Ohio ; 
James  T.  Hale,  Pa.;  William  Helmick,  Ohio  ; 
Charles  B.  Hoard,  N.  Y. ;  James  Humphrey, 
N.  Y. ;  John  Hutchins,  Ohio  ;  William  Irvine, 
N.  Y. ;  Benjamin  F.  Junkin,  Pa. ;  Fraticis  W. 
Kellogg,  Mich.;  William  Kellogg,  111.;  Wil 
Ham  S.  Kenyon,  N.  Y. ;  David  Kilgore,  Ind. ; 
John  W.  Killinger,  Pa. ;  De  Witt  C.  Leach, 
Mich. ;  M.  Lindley  Lee,  N.  Y. ;  Henry  C.  Long- 
necker,  Pa.;  Dwight  Loomis,  Conn.;  Owen 
Lovejoy,  111. ;  Oilman  Mirston,  N.  H. ;  James 
B.  McKean,  N.  Y. ;  Robert  McKn^ght,  Pa. ; 
Edward  McPherson,  Pa. ;  James  K.  Aioorhead, 
Pa. ;  Freeman  H.  Morse,  Me. ;  John  T.  Nixon, 


N.  J.  ;  Abraham  B.  Olin,  N.  Y. ;  George  W. 
Palmer,  N.  Y. ;  John  J.  Perry,  Me. ;  John  U. 
Pettit,.Ind.j  Albert  G.  Porter,  Ind.  j  John  F. 
Potter,  Wis. ;  Alexander  H.  Rice,  Mass.;  Chris 
topher  Robinson,  R.  I. ;  Homer  E.  Royce,  Vt. ; 
George  VV.  Scranton,  Pa. ;  Charles  B.  Sedg- 
wick,  N.  Y. ;  John  Sherman,  Ohio ;  Daniel  E. 
Somes,  Me.;  Francis  E.  Spinner,  N.  Y. ;  Ben 
jamin  Stanton,  Ohio;  Tbaddeus  Stevens,  Pa.; 
William  Stewart,  Pa.;  John  L.  N.  Stratton, 
N.  J. ;  Mason  W.  Tappan,  N.  H. ;  Cydnor  B. 
Tompkins,  Ohio;  Charles  R.  Train,  Mass.: 
Carey  A.  Trimble,  Ohio;  William  Vandever, 
Iowa;  John  P.  Verree,  Pa. ;  Edward  Wade, 
Ohio  ;  Henry  Waldron,  Mich. ;  E.  P.  Walton, 
Vt. ;  Cadwalader  C.  Washburn,  Wis. ;  Elihu 
B.  Washburne,  '11. ;  Israel  Wrvshburn.  jun.,  Me. ; 
Alfred  \Aells,  N.  Y.  ;  James  Wilson,  Ind.; 
William  Windom,  Minn. ;  John  Wood,  Pa. ; 
John  Woodruff,  Conn.— 97. 

Nays,  (Democrats,  South  Americans,  and 
Mr.  Thaycr  of  Mass.}  — Green  Adams,  Ky. ; 
Garnett  B.  Adrain,  N.  J.  ;  William  Allen, 
Ohio  ;  Thomas  L.  Anderson,  Mo. ;  William  C. 
Anderson^  Ky. ;  John  D.  Ash  more,  S.  C. ; 
William  T.  A  very,  Teun.  ;  William  Barksdale, 
Miss. ;  Thomas  J.  Barr,  N.  Y.  ;  J.  R.  Barrett, 
Mo.  ;  Thomas  S.  Bocock,  Va. ;  Milledge  L. 
Bonham,  S.  C.  ;  William  W.  Boyce,  S.  C.  ; 
Lawrence  O'B.  Branch,  N.  C. ;  Francis  M. 
Bristow,  Ky.  ;  John  C.  Burch,  Cal. ;  Henry  C. 
Burnett,  Ky. ;  John  B.  Clark,  Mo. ;  David 
Clopton,  Ala. ;  Williamson  B.  W.  Cobb,  Ala. ; 
John  Cochrane,  N.  Y. ;  George  B.  Cooper, 
Mich.;  Samuel  S.  Cox,  Ohio;  James  Craig, 
Mo.;  Martin  J.  Crawford,  Ga. ;  Jabez  L.  M. 
Curry,  Al'a. ;  H.  Winter  Davis,  Md. ;  John  G. 
Davis,  lad. ;  Daniel  C.  De  Jarnette,  Va. ;  Em 
erson  Etheridge,  Tenn. ;  Thomas  B.  Florence, 
Pa.  ;  Muscoe  II.  H.  Garnett,  Va. ;  Lucius  J. 
Gartrell,  Ga. ;  John  T.  Harris,  Va. ;  John  B. 
Haskin,  N.  Y. ;  George  S.  Hawkins,  Fla. ;  Wil 
liam  S.  Hoi  man,  Ind. ;  George  S.  Houston, 
Ala.  ;' William  Howard,  Ohio;  George  W. 
Hughes,  Md. ;  James  Jackson,  '-a. ;  Albert  G. 
Jenkins,  Va. ;  John  J.  Jones.  Ga. ;  Lawrence 
M.  Keitt,  S.  C. ;  Jacob  M.  Kunkel,  Md. ;  Lucius 
Q.  C.  Lamar,  Miss. ;  John  M.  Landrum,  La. ; 
Charles  H.  Larrabee,  V\  is. ;  James  M.  Leach, 
N.'C. ;  Srftlton  F.  Leake,  Va. ;  John  A.  Logan, 
111. ;  Peter  E.  Love,  Ga. :  Charles  D.  Martin, 
Ohio;  John  McQueen,  S.  C. ;  W.  Porcher 
Miles,  S.  C. ;  John  S.  Millson,  Va.;  William 
Montgomery,  Pa.;  Laban  T.  Moore,  Ky. ; 
Sydenham  Moore,  Ala.;  Isaac  N.  Morris,  111.; 
William  E.  Niblack,  Ind. ;  George  H.  Pendle- 
ton,  Ohio;  Samuel  0.  Peyton,  Ky. ;  John  S. 
Phelps,  Mo. ;  Roger  A.  Pryor,  Va. ;  James  L. 
Pugh,  Ala.;  John  H.  Reagan,  Texas;  John 
H.  Reynolds,  N.  Y. :  Jetur  R.  Riggs,  N.  J. ; 
James  C.  Robinson,  111. ;  Thomas  Ruffin,  N. 
C. ;  John  Schwartz,  Pa. ;  Charles  L.  Scott, 
Cal. ;  William  E.  Simms,  Ky. ;  Otho  R.  Sin 
gleton.  Miss. ;  William  Smith,  Va. ;  James  A. 
Stallworth,  Ala. ;  John  W.  Stevenson,  Ky. ; 


Lansing  Stout,  Oregon ;  Miles  Taylor,  La,  ; 
Eli  Thayer,  Mass.;  James  H.  Thomas,  Tenn.  j 
John  W.  H.  Underwood,  Ga. ;  Clement  L.  Val- 
landigham,  Ohio;  Zebulon  B.  Vance,  N.  C. ; 
Edwin  H.  Webster,  Md. ;  William  G.  Whiteley, 
Del.;  Warren  Window,  N.  C. ;  Samuel  H. 
Woodson,  Mo. ;  John  V.  Wright,  Tenn.— 90. 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  MAY  10,  1800. 
Mr.  BingJiam-j  from  the  Committee  on  the  Judi 
ciary,  made  the  following  report : 

The  Judiciary, Committee,  having  had  under 
consideration  the  bill  referred  to  them,  entitled 
"  A  bill  to  repeal  all  acts  of  the  Legislature  of 
1  New  Mexico  authorizing  slavery  or  involun- 
'  tary  servitude,  except  as  punishment  for 
1  crime,"  report  the  same  back  to  the  House  of 
Representatives,  with  an  amendment,  and  re 
commend  that  the  same  do  pass,  and  that  it  be 
put  upon  its  passage. 

"  And  the  committee  further  report  that 
for  the  organization  of  said  Territory  of  New 
Mexico  by  the  act  of  September  9,  1850,  (U. 
S.  Statutes  at  Large,  vol.  9,  p.  449,  sec.  7,)  it  is 
provided  that  "  all  the  laws  passed  by  the  Legia- 
'  lative  Assembly  and  Governor  shall  be  sub- 
'  mitted  to  the  Congress  of  the  United  States, 
'  and  if  disapproved  shall  be  null  and  void." 

The  Territorial  statutes  referred  to  in  the  bill, 
and  certain  sections  whereof  are  disapproved 
thereby  and  declared  null  and  void,  are  as  fol 
lows  :  "  An  act  amendatory  of  the  law  relative 
to  contracts  between  masters  and  servants," 
approved  by  the  Territorial  Legislature  of  New 
Mexico,  Janua  y  26,  1859. 

SEC.  1.  When  any  servant  shall  run  away  from 
the  service  of  his  master,  he  shall  be  considered 
as  a  fugitive  from  justice,  and  in  such  case  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  all  officers  of  the  Territory,  judicial 
or  ministerial,  on  being  informed  that  such  per 
sons  are  within  the  limits  of  their  jurisdiction, 
to  ascertain  whether  such  persons  are  runaway 
servants  or  not,  and  if  they  ascertain  that  they 
are,  said  officers  shall  immediately  arrest  them 
and  put  them  to  work  at  public  labor,  or  hire 
them  out  to  any  person  so  that  they  may  be 
employed,  with  security,  until  their  master  shall 
be  informed  thereof,  in  order  that  they  may  de 
mand  them,  and  to  whom  they  shall  imme 
diately  be  delivered. 

SEC.  2.  Every  person  of  this  Territory,  either 
a  contracted  servant  according  to  the  law  of 
contracts,  or  engaged  on  trips  or  as  shepherds, 
shall  be  compelled  to  serve  for  the  time  stipu 
lated  for  in  the  contract ;  and  any  servant  so 
contracted  who  shall  fail  to  serve  by  abandon 
ing  his  master  or  property  placed  under  his 
care,  shall  be  held  responsible  for  all  costs  and 
damages  which  through  his  neglect  may  result 


to  the  owner:  Provided,  That  in  the  same 
manner  in  which  the  servants  shall  be  com 
pelled  to  comply  with  this  contract,  the  masters 
should  also  be  equally  obliged,  in  case  any  ser 
vant  should  fall  sick  on  any  trip,  to  furnish 
them,  at  their  own  expense,  the  means  of  cure, 
and  shall  not,  under  any  circumstances,  aban 
don  them  ;  but,  on  the  contrary,  shall  convey 
them  to  their  homes,  where  the  said  servants 
may  be  able  to  procure  the  means  necessary  for 
their  subsistence. 

SEC.  3.  No  person  shall  employ  the  servant 
of  another  without  becoming  responsible  by 
such  act  to  pay  the  money  due  on  the  first  con 
tract  ;  and  if  they  shall  furnish  him  with  any 
money,  and  the  servant  shall  be  compelled  to 
return  to  the  service  of  his  first  master  for  the 
reason  that  the  second  did  not  have  or  did  not 
desire  to  pay  the  money  due,  in  such  case  the 
second  contractor  shall  lose  his  claim,  or  shall 
be  compelled  to  wait  until  the  servant  shall 
have  paid  the  money  of  the  first  contractor. 

SEC.  4.  No  court  of  this  Territory  shall  have 
jurisdiction  nor  shall  take  cognizance  of  any 
cause  for  the  correction  that  masters  may  give 
their  servants  for  neglect  of  their  duties  as  ser 
vants,  for  they  are  considered  as  domestic  ser 
vants  to  their  masters,  and  they  should  correct 
their  neglect  and  faults;  for  as  soldiers  are 
punished  by  their  chiefs,  without  the  interven 
tion  of  the  civil  authority,  by  reason  of  the  sal 
ary  they  enjoy,  an  equal  right  should  be  grant 
ed  those  persons  who  pay  their  money  to  be 
served  in  the  protection  of  their  property :  Pro 
vided,  That  such  correction  shall  not  be  inflict 
ed  in  a  cruel  manner  with  clubs  or  stripes. 

SEC.  5.  Sections  fourteen  and  fifteen  of  an 
act  approved  July  20,  1851, 'relative  to  con 
tracts  between  masters  and  servants,  are  hereby 
repealed. 

SEC.  6.  That  all  acts  or  parts  of  acts,  laws 
or  parts  of  laws,  in  conflict  with  this  act,  are 
hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  7.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  and  take 
effect  from  and  after  its  passage. 
An  Act  to  provide  for  the  protection  of  property  in  slaves 

in  this  Territory,  approved  by  the  Territorial  Legisla 

ture  of  New  Mexico,  February  3, 1859. 

SEC.  1.  That  every  person  who  shall  be  con 
victed  of  the  unlawful  killing  of  a  slave,  or 
other  offence  upon  the  person  of  a  slave,  within 
this  Territory,  whether  as  principal  or  acces 
sory,  shall  suffer  the  same  pains  and  penalties 
as  if  the  party  upon  whose  person  the  offence 
was  committed  had  been  a  free  white  person. 

SEC.  2.  Every  person  who  shall  steal  any 
slave  with  the  intent  that  the  owner,  or  any  one 
having  an  interest  in  such  slave,  present  or  fu 
ture,  vested  or  contingent,  legal  or  equitable, 
shall  be  deprived  of  the  use  or  benefit  of  such 
slave,  shall,  upon  conviction,  suffer  imprison 
ment  for  a  term  not  more  than  ten  nor  less 
than  four  years,  and  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  more 
than  two  thousand  nor  less  than  five  hundred 
dollars ;  and  every  person  who  shall,  by  vio 


lence,  seduction,  or  other  means,  take  and  carry 
or  entice  away  any  slave  with  the  like  intent 
shall  be  deemed  and  held,  for  every  purpose 
whatever,  to  have  stolen  such  slave,  within  the 
meaning  of  this  act.  And  every  person  who, 
knowing  any  slave  to  have  been  stolen  as  afore 
said,  shall  aid,  assist,  or  advise  in  or  about  the 
carrying  away  of  such  slave,  shall  suffer  the 
like  penalties  as  are  above  prescribed  against 
the  person  stealing  such  slave  as  aforesaid. 

SEC.  3.  Every  person  who  shall  carry  or 
convey,  or  wilfully  assist  in  carrying  or  con 
veying  any  slave,  the  property  of  another,  with 
the  intent  or  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  or  ena 
bling  such  slave  to  escape  out  of  this  Territory, 
or  within  this  Territory  and  beyond  the  control 
or  recovery  of  his  owner  or  master,  shall,  upon 
conviction  thereof,  suffer  the  same  penalties  as 
are  prescribed  in  the  foregoing  section  of  this 
act.  And  in  any  indictment  preferred  against 
any  person  for  the  violation  of  any  of  the  pro 
visions  of  this  act,  the  property  in  the  slave 
shall  be  well  laid,  if  charged  to  belong  to  any 
person  having  an  interest  in  such  slave,  whether 
such  interest  be  legal  or  equitable,  present  or 
future,  joint  or  several,  vested  or  contingent. 

SEC.  4.  Every  person  who  shall  forge  or 
furnish  to  any  negro,  free  or  slave,  any  false  or 
fabricated  free  papers,  or  false  evidences,  in 
print  or  writing,  of  the  freedom  of  such  negro, 
shall,  upon  conviction,  suffer  imprisonment  for 
a  term  not  more  'than  five  years,  nor  less  than 
six  months,  and  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  more 
than  one  thousand  nor  less  than  one  hundred 
dollars. 

SEC.  5.  Any  person  who  shall  hire,  entice, 
persuade,  or  in  any  manner  induce  any  slave 
to  absent  himself  from  the  service  or  custody 
of  his  owner  or  master,  or  who  shall,  upon  any 
pretence,  harbor  or  maintain  any  slave  so  ab 
senting  himself  from  such  service  or  custody, 
shall,  upon  .conviction  thereof,  suffer  fine  and 
imprisonment  as  prescribed  in  section  four  of 
this  act,  and  shall  besides  be  liable  to  the  owner 
or  master  in  a  civil  suit  for  dam-ages. 

SEC.  6.  Any  person  who  shall  endeavor  to 
excite  in  any  slave  a  spirit  of  insurrection, 
conspiracy,  or  rebellion,  or  who  shall  advise, 
countenance,  aid,  or  in  any  manner  Jtbet  any 
slave  in  resistance  against  his  owner  or  master, 
shall,  upon  conviction,  suffer  imprisonment  not 
less  than  three  months,  nor  more  than  three 
years,  and  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than 
twenty-five  nor  more  than  one  thousand  dol 
lars. 

SEC.  7.  Any  person  who  shall  sell,  lend, 
hire,  give,  or  in  any  manner  furnish  to  any 
slave,  any  sword,  dirk,  bowie-knife,  gun,  pistol, 
or  otner  fire-arms,  or  any  other  kind  of  deadly 
weapons  of  offence,  or  any  ammunition  of  any 
kind  suitable  for  fire-arms,  shall,  upon  convic 
tion,  suffer  the  penalties  prescribed  in  section 
six  of  this  act:  Provided,  That  nothing  herein 
contained  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prohibit 
the  owner  or  master  of  any  slave  from  tempo- 


rarily  arming  such  slave  with  such  weapon  and 
ammunition  for  the  purpose  of  the  lawful  de 
fence  of  himself,  his  family,  or  property. 

SEC.  8.  All  trade  or  traffic  between  free  per 
sons  and  slaves,  in  any  article  of  goods,  mer 
chandise,  provisions,  supplies,  or  other  com 
modity  whatever,  is  hereby  prohibited,  unless 
the  slave  have  and  exhibit  the  permission  of 
his  owner  or  master,  in  writing,  to  trade  or 
traffic,  which  written  permission  must  specifi 
cally  set  forth  the  articles  or  commodities  which 
said  slave  is  authorized  to  sell,  buy,  or  barter ; 
and  any  person  who  shall  violate  the  provisions 
of  this  section  shall,  upon  conviction,  suffer  the 
penalties  prescribed  in  section  six  of  this  act. 
And  if  any  person  other  than  the  owner  or 
master  of  such  slave  shall  furnish  to  any  such 
slave  any  fabricated,  false,  or  forged  permit  to 
trade  as  aforesaid,  he  shall  suffer  the  same 
penalties  as  are  prescribed  in  the  said  sixth 
section  of  this  act. 

SEC.  9.  Any  free  person  who  shall  play  with 
any  slave  at  any  game  of  cards,  or  any  other 
game  of  skill,  chance,  hazard,  or  address,  either 
with  or  without  betting  thereon,  shall  be  held 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  be  fined  in  a  sum 
not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  or  impris 
oned  not  exceeding  three  months,  or  both,  at 
the  discretion  of  the  court. 

SEC.  10.  Any  person  may  lawfully  take  up  or 
apprehend  any  slave  who  shall  have  run  away, 
or  be  absenting  himself  from  the  custody  or 
service  of  his  master  or  owner,  and  may  law 
fully  use  or  employ  such  force  as  may  be  neces 
sary  to  take  up  or  apprehend  such  slave  5  and 
such  person,  upon  the  delivery  of  such  slave  to 
his  master  or  owner,  or  at  such  place  as  such 
master  or  owner  may  designate,  shall  be  entitled 
to  demand  or  recover  by  suit  any  reward  which 
may  have  been  offered  for  the  apprehension  or 
delivery  of  such  slave.  And  if  no  reward  has 
been  offered,  then  such  person  so  apprehending 
such  slave  shall,  upon  the  delivery  of  such 
slave  to  his  master  or  owner,  or  to  the  sheriff 
of  the  county  in  which  such  slave  was  appre 
hended,  be  entitled  to  demand  and  recover  from 
such  owner  or  master  the  sum  of  twenty  dollars, 
besides  ten  cents  for  each  mile  of  travel  to  and 
from  the  place  where  such  apprehension  was 
made. 

SEC.  11.  If  any  sheriff  of  any  county  within 
this  Territory  shall  fail  or  refuse  to  receive  and 
keep,  with  proper  care,  any  runaway  slave  so 
offered  to  him  for  safe  keeping  by  such  person 
apprehending  the  same,  or  his  agent,  such  sher 
iff  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  fined  in  a 
sum  not  less  than  five  hundred  dollars,  to  the 
use  of  the  Territory  ;  shall  further  be  liable  to 
the  owner  of  such  slave  for  his  value,  recover 
able  by  civil  suit,  and  shall  be  ineligible  for  re 
election  to  the  said  office. 

SEC.  12.  The  said  sheriff,  upon  receiving 
such  runaway  into  his  custody  as  aforesaid, 
shall  forthwith  cause  to  be  inserted  in  some 
public  newspaper  of  this  Territory  a  full  and 


particular  description  of  such  slave,  stating 
therein  the  date  of  his  commitment  to  jail  as  a 
runaway,  which  advertisement  he  shall  cause 
to  be  continued  for  the  space  of  six  months, 
unless  such  slave  shall  sooner  be  delivered  up 
to  his  owner  or  master,  upon  proof  of  owner 
ship  or  right  of  possession,  and  payment  of  all 
costs,  as  hereinafter  provided. 

But  if,  at  the  expiration  of  six  months  from 
the  date  of  the  first  insertion  of  such  advertise 
ment,  no  owner  or  master  shall  appear  and  re 
claim  his  said  slave,  then  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  said  sheriff  to  cause  to  be  inserted  in 
such  newspaper  a  further  advertisement,  setting 
forth,  as  before,  a  full  description  of  such  slave, 
with  the  date  of  his  commitment  as  aforesaid, 
and  a  recital  of  the  former  advertisement,  and 
giving  notice  that  upon  a  particular  day  to  be 
named,  not  less  than  six  nor  more  than  seven 
months  subsequent  to  the  first  insertion  of  such 
advertisement,  he  will,  at  the  door  of  his  jail 
or  of  the  court  house  of  his  county,  sell  the  said 
slave  to  the  highest  bidder  for  cash.  And  on 
the  sale  day  so  appointed,  the  said  sheriff,  or 
his  successor  in  office,  shall  accordingly,  be 
tween  the  hours  of  twelve  o'clock  M.  and  two 
o'clock  P.  M.,  at  the  place  of  sale,  offer  at  pub 
lic  vendue  and  sell  to  the  highest  bidder  for 
cash,  the  said  slave,  and  shall  execute  to  the 
purchaser  his  bill  of  sale  for  such  slave,  which 
shall  vest  in  such  purchaser  a  good  and  inde 
feasible  title  against  all  persons  whatever: 
Provided,  however,  That  if  the  owner  or  master 
shall,  at  any  time  before  such  sale,  appear  and 
reclaim  the  said  slave,  as  hereinafter  provided, 
and  pay  all  costs  and  expenses  due  to  the  said 
sheriff,  the  taker-up,  and  the  newspaper,  (for 
all  which  the  sheriff  is  authorized  to  receipt,) 
then  such  slave  shall  be  delivered  up  to  such 
owner  or  master. 

SEC.  13.  Before  any  slave,  in  custody  of  the 
sheriff  as  a  runaway,  shall  be  delivered  up  to 
any  claimant,  such  claimant  shall  first  prove  by 
the  affidavit  of  some  disinterested  person,  taken 
before  some  judge,  justice  of  the  peace,  or  no 
tary  public,  (whose  official  characters,  if  officers 
of  another  State  or  Territory,  shall  be  legally 
authenticated,)  that  he,  the  claimant,  has  lost 
such  a  slave  as  described  in  the  advertise 
ment  aforesaid ;  second,  the  claimant  shall 
make  his  own  affidavit  that  the  slave  in  cus 
tody  is  the  identical  slave  so  lost,  and  to  which 
he  is  entitled  as  owner  or  master,  (or  as  agent 
for  the  owner  or  master,  producing  authority  as 
such  agent  by  power  of  attorney  duly  acknowl 
edged  and  authenticated;)  third,  give  bond  to 
the  said  sheriff,  with  security  to  be  approved 
by  him,  to  indemnify  him  against  the  lawful 
claims  of  all  other  persons  to  such  slave ; 
fourth,  pay  all  costs  and  charges,  as  follows : 
the  fee  for  apprehension  as  aforesaid,  with 
mileage,  the  sheriffs  costs  of  one  dollar  for  re 
ceiving  such  slave  into  custody,  one  dollar  for 
j  each  advertisement  made  as  aforesaid,  and  ten 
'  cents  per  day  for  each  day  the  said  slave  has 


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remained  in  his  custody;  and  also  the  costs  of 
the  newspaper  for  the  advertisement  of  such 
slave. 

SEC.  14.  If,  after  delivering  up  such  slave  to 
such  claimant,  any  other  person  should  appear 
and  demand  the  said  slave  as  his  right  and 
property,  the  said  sheriff  shall  assign  and  de 
liver  the  said  bond  to  such  person,  who  may 
thereon  institute  suit  in  his  obwn  name,  and  re 
cover  the  value  of  said  slave,  and  all  damages, 
from  the  makers  of  such  bond ;  but  the  said 
sheriff  shall  be  thereby  fully  acquitted  of  all 
liability  on  account  of  the  said  slave ;  Pro 
vided,  Nothing  herein  shall  be  construed  to 
prevent  the  true  owner  from  proceeding  against 
the  person  in  possession  of  such  slave,  for  the 
specific  recovery  of  such  slave,  or  for  any  other 
redress  against  such  person  as  he  may  be  le 
gally  entitled  to. 

SEC.  15.  In  case  such  slave  shall  be  sold, 
as  provided  in  section  12,  then  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  said  sheriff,  after  first  deducting 
the  costs  and  charges  aforesaid,  and  the  further 
costs  of  five  per  cent,  upon  the  proceeds  of  such 
sale  as  his  commission  thereon,  to  pay  over  the 
surplus  of  such  proceeds  to  the  Territorial 
treasurer,  taking  a  receipt  therefor,  and  filing 
with  such  treasurer  a  statement  of  all  costs  and 
charges  retained  by  him  as  aforesaid ;  and  the 
said  treasurer  shall  duly  charge  himself  with 
and  account  for  such  proceeds  as  for  other 
public  funds. 

SEC.  16.  If  any  person  shall  fail  to  maintain 
or  properly  provide  food,  lodging,  and  raiment, 
for  any  slave  of  which  he  is  the  owner,  any 
judge  of  the  District  Court,  probate  judge,  or 


convicted  of  cruel  and  inhuman  treatment  to 
such  slave  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment 
not  more  than  one  year,  and  a  fine  not  more 
than  one  thousand  dollars. 

SEC.  19.  Any  owner  of  a  slave  who  shall 
suffer  such  slave  to  hire  his  own  time,  or  go  at 
large  and  employ  himself  as  a  free  man,  for 
more  than  twenty-four  hours  for  any  one  time, 
shall,  upon  the  conviction  thereof  before  any 
justice  of  the  peace,  be  fined  in  a  sura  not  ex 
ceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  to  inure  to  the 
county  treasury. 

SEC.  20.  Any  slave  who  shall  conduct  him 
self  disorderly  in  a  public  place,  or  shall  give 
insolent  language  or  signs  to  any  free  white 
person,  may  be  arrested  and  taken  by  such 
person  before  a  justice  of  the  peace,  who,  upon 
trial  and  conviction  in  a  summary  manner, 
shall  cause  his  constable  to  give  such  slave  any 
number  of  stripes  upon  his  bare  back  not  ex 
ceeding  thirty-nine. 

SEC.  21.  When  any  slave  shall  be  convicted 
of  any  crime  or  misdemeanor,  for  which  the 
penalty  assigned  by  law  is  in  all  or  in  part  of 
a  sum  of  money,  the  court  passing  sentence 
upon  him  may,  in  its  discretion,  substitute  for 
such  fine*  corporal  punishment  by  branding  or 
with  stripes. 

SEC.  22.  No  slave,  free  negro,  or  mulatto, 
shall  be  permitted  to  give  evidence  in  any 
court  against  a  free  white  person,  but  against 
each  other  they  shall  be  competent  witnesses. 

SEC.  23.  Marriages  between  white  persons 
and  slaves  or  free  negroes  or  mulattoes  are  pro 
hibited,  and  such  rites  of  matrimony  are  declar 
ed  void  ;  and  any  free  white  person  attempting 


justice  of  the  peace,  may,  and  upon  sworn  in-  !  to  enter  into  or  procure  a  marriage  with  such 


formation  made  before  him  shall,  cause  such 
person  by  his  warrant  to  be  brought  before 


slave,  or  free  negro  or  mulatto,  upon  indict 
ment  and  conviction,  shall  be  punished  with 


him,  and  upon  investigation  and  proof  of  such  \  imprisonment  not  exceeding  six  months,  and 


facts,  in  a  summary  manner,  without  appeal. 
Such  judge,  or  justice,  may  require  such  per 
son  to  enter  into  bond,  with  sufficient  surety, 
payable  to  the  Territory,  in  such  sum  as  he 
shall  require,  and  conditioned  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  such  slave  in  the  future, 
which  bond  may  at  any  time  thereafter  be  put 
in  suit  upon  the  affidavit  of  any  person  that  the 
same  has  become  forfeited. 

SEC.  17.  When  a  slave  shall  be  indicted  for 


fine  not  exceeding  three  hundred  dollars. 

SEC.  24.  Any  slave,  free  negro,  or  mulatto, 
who  shall  commit  or  attempt  to  commit  a  rape 
upon  the  person  of  any  white  woman,  shall, 
upon  conviction  thereof,  suffer  death. 

SEC.  25.  The  emancipation  of  slaves  within 
this  Territory  is  totally  prohibited. 

SEC.  2G.  No  slave  shall  be  permitted  to  go 
from  the  premises  of  his  owner  or  master  after 
sunset  and  before  sunrise  without  a  written 


felony,  the  clerk  of  the  court,  upon  the  arrest  of  I  pass  specifying  the  particular  place  or  places 
such  slave,  or  return  of  such  indictment,  shall  |  to  which  such  slave  is  permitted  to  go ;  and 
issue  a  citation  to  the  owner  or  master  named  j  any  white  person  is  authorized  to  take  any 
in  such  indictment,  requiring  him  to  appear  i  slave  who,  upon  demand,  shall  not  exhibit 
and  defend  his  said  slave;  and  in  case  such  i  such  pass,  before  any  justice  of  the  peace,  who, 
owner  or  master  shall  not  so  appear,  it  shall  be  upon  summary  investigation,  shall  cause  such 
the  duty  of  the  court  trying  the  same  to  appoint  slave  to  be  whipped  with  not  more  than  thirty- 
back,  and  to  be 


nine  stripes  upon  his  bare 

committed  to  the  jail  or  custody  of  a  proper 


counsel  for  such  slave,  who  shall  be  authorized 
to  direct  the  summons  of  all  witnesses  for  the 

defence,  and  in  all  respects  to  conduct  the  same;  j  officer,  to  be  released  the  next  day,  on  the  de- 
and  the  court  shall  allow  to  such  counsel  a  i  mand  and  payment  of  costs  by  the  owner  or 

J  —  •*-     master. 

SEC.  27.  Any  person  claiming  to  be  entitled 


reasonable  fee  for  his  services,  and  tax  the 
same  as  other  costs,  and  award  execution 
against  the  owner  therefor. 


SEC.  18.  Any  owner  of  a  slave  indicted  and 


to  the  possession  of  any  slave  which  is  with 
hold  from  him,  may  either  institute  his  action 


of  replevin  therefor  as  for  other  property,  or 
upon  his  sworn  petition,  directed  to  the  district 
judgo  of  the  district  wherein  such  slave  maybe, 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus 
directed  to  the  person  having  such  slave  in 
possession,  upon  which  such  proceedings  shall 
be  had  as  are  now  had  upon  such  process  when 
instituted  for  other  persons;  and  if  the  judge, 
upon  hearing  such,  shall  see  fit,  he  may  require 
the  party  to  whom  he  adjudges  the  possession 
of  the  slave  to  enter  into  such  bond,  to  such 
amount,  and  with  such  security  as  he  shall  ap 
prove,  payable  to  the  adverse  party,  conditioned 
for  the  safe  delivery  of  said  slave,  to  abide  the 
Judgment  or  decree  of  any  court  of  competent 
jurisdiction,  which  may  be  rendered  in  any 
suit  to  be  instituted  within  six  months  from 
the  date  of  such  bond,  which  bond,  upon  breach 
thereof,  may  be  prosecuted  to  judgment  against 
the  makers  of  the  same,  or  any  of  them,  by  the 
payee  thereof,  bis  executors,  or  administrators, 
or  assigns  ;  and  any  court  of  chancery  shall 
entertain  a  bill  for  the  specific  recovery  of  any 


slave  without  allegation  or  proof  of  peculiar 
value  or  pretium  affectionis. 

SEC.  28.  Any  person  who  shall  hold  as  slave 
any  negro  or  mulatto  who  is  entitled  to  his 
freedom,  shall,  upon  conviction,  suffer  impris 
onment  for  a  term  not  exceeding  ten  nor  less 
than  five  years,  and  be  fined  in  a  sum  riot  less 
than  five  hundred  nor  more  than  two  thousand 
dollars. 

SEC.  29.  When  a  word  in  this  act  is  used  in 
the  masculine  form  it  shall  include  the  femi 
nine;  where  used  in  the  singular,  it  shall  in 
clude  the  plural,  and  vice,  versa;  and  the  word 
"master"  shall  be  taken  to  include  any  person 
who,  whether  as  owner,  bailee,  or  otherwise, 
has  or  is  entitled  to  have  the  immediate  pos 
session  or  control  of  the  slave. 

SEC.  30.  That  this  act  shall  in  no  manner 
apply  to  relation  between  masters  and  con 
tracted  servants  in  this  Territory,  but  the  word 
"sl°ve"  shall  only  apply  to  the  African  race. 

SEC.  31.  That  this  act  shall  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 


PRESIDENTIAL    CAMPAIGN   OT    1860. 


REPUBLICAN  EXECUTIVE  CONGRESSIONAL  COMMITTEE. 


HON.  PRESTON  KING,  N.  Y.,  Chairman. 
"      J.  W.  GRIMES,  IOWA. 
"      L.  F.  S.  FOSTER,  CONN. 

On  the  part  of  the  Senate. 

11      E.  B.  WASHBURNB,  ILLINOIS. 


JOHN  COVODE.  PENN.,  Treasurer. 
E.  G.  SPAULDING,  N.  Y. 
J.  B.  .ALLKV,  MASS. 
DAVID  KILGORE,  INDIANA. 
J.  L.  N.  8TRATTON,  N.  J. 

On  the  part  of  the  Jfovse  of  Reps. 


EIGHT  PAGES. 
Tlie  Stato  of  the  Country— W.  H.  Scward. 


The  Committee  are  prepared  to  furnish  the  following  Speeches  and  Documents : 

I  Resigning  His  Position  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  01 
Commerce  and  reasons  for  leaving  the  Democratic  Parly  - 
I      Hannibal  Ilamlin. 
j  Public  Expenditures— R.  II.  Ducll. 
I  Tun  Republican  Party  and  tho  Republican  Candidate  for  th 

Presidency— W.  ll'cKcc  Dunn. 
'  The  Republican  Platform — E.  G.  Spauldinjr. 
:  Frauds  in  Naval  Contracts— John  Sherman. 
Senate  Investigation  of  Public  Printing — Preston  King. 


Irrepressible  Conflict "— W.  H.  Seward. 

Free  Homes  for  Free  Men— G.  A.  Grow. 

Shall  the  Territories  be  Africanized — James  Harlan. 

Who  have  Violated  Compromises — John  Hickman. 

Invasion  of  Harper's  Ferry — B.  F.  Wade. 

The  Speakershiit— G.  W.  Scrantou  and  J.  H.  Campbell. 

Colonizationxind  Commerce — F.  P.  Blair. 

General  Politics— Orris  S.  Ferry. 

The  Demands  of  the  South— The  Republican  Party  Vindi 
cated—Abraham  Lincoln. 

Ths  Honvstoud  Bill  -Tf«  Friends  and  its  Foes — W.  Windom. 

The  Barbarism  of  Slavery — Owen  Lovejoy. 

Tho  New  Dogma  of  the  South—"  Slavery  a  Blessing''— H. 
L.  Dawes. 

The  Position  of  Parties— R.  H.  Duell. 

The  Homestead  Bill— M.  S.  Wilkinson. 

Polygamy  in  Utah— D.  W.  Gooch. 

Douglas  and  Popular  Sovereignty — Carl  Schurz. 

Lands  for  the  Landless— A  Tract. 

Tho  Poor  Whites  of  the  South— The  Injury  done  them  by 
Slavery — A  Tract. 

A  Protective  Tariff  Necessary— Rights  of  Labor— James  H. 
Campbell. 

Tho  Fanaticism  of  the  Democratic  Party— Owen  Lovely. 

Mission  of  Republicans — Sectionalism  of  Modern  Democ 
racy — Robert  McKnight. 

Southern  Sectional  ism— John  Hickman. 

Freedom  vs.  Slavery — John  Hutching. 

Republican  Land  Policy — Homes  for  the  Million — Stephen  C. 
Foster. 

Tariff— Justin  S.  Merrill. 

Legislative  Protection  to  the  Industry  of  the  People— Alex 
ander  H.  Rice. 

Modern  Democracy— Henry  Waldron. 

The  Teritorjal  Slave  Poiicy  ;  The  Republican  Party  ;  What 
tho  North  has  to  do  with  Slavery— Thomas  D.  Eliot. 

Tho  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States— Roscoe  Conkling. 

Designs  of  the  Republican  Party— Christopher  Robinson. 

Address — Montgomery  Blair. 

The  Necessity  of  Protecting  American  Labor-rJ.  P.  Verree. 

Pennsylvania  Betrayed  by  the  Administration — J.  Schwartz. 

Tlie  Republican  Party  and  its  Principles— James  T.  Hale. 

Revenue  and  Expenditures — John  Sherman. 

Tho  Claims  of  Agriculture— John  Carey. 
Negro  Equality— The  Right  of  One  Man  to  Hold  Property  in 
Another — The  Democratic  Party  a  Disunion  Party — The 
Success  of  the  Republican  Party  the  only  Salvation  for  the 
Country— Bcujaniin  Stanton. 

itercbt  of  the  Farmer  and  Manufacturer — Curey  A. 


Tlio  Tariff — Its  Constittttwaatlty,  >'<:cessity,  and  AM.  auto,- 
jr,-.p — John  T.  Nixon. 

rosiiioii  of  Parties  and  Abuses  of  Power— Reuben  E.  Fen  ton. 

Bill  aud  Report  Repealing  tho  Territorial  Laws  01  New  Mexi 
co — John  A.  Biugham. 

Democracy  alia*  Slavery— James  B.  McKcan. 

Abraham  Lincoln,  His  Personal  History  and  Public  Record— 
E.  B.  Washburno. 

The  President's  Message— The  Sectional  Party— John  A. 
Bingharo. 

The  Republican  Party  a  Necessity— Charles  F.  Adams. 

Tho  Filibustering  Policy  Of  the  Sham  Democracy — J.  J.  Perry. 

Pennsylvania  Betrayed  by  <.ho  Administration — J.  Schwartz. 

Jloderu  Democracy—Justin  S.  Morriil. 

Equality  of  Rights  in  the  Territories— Harrison  G.  Blake. 


SIXTEEN    PAGES. 
Seizure  of  Arsenals  at  Harper's  Ferry,  Va.  and  Liberty 

Mo. — Lyman  Trumbull. 
Property  ifi  the  Territories — B.  F.  Wade. 
True  Democrat- v  —  li;.-u>ry  \  indicate.! --  "  H  Va">  Wyok. 
!  Territorial  Slave  Code— H.  Wilson. 
{  Slavery  in  the  Territories— .John  P.  Hale. 
"  Posting  the  Books  between  the-  North  and  the  South  '' — 

J.  Perry. 
The  Calhoun  Revolution— Its  B.isis  and  it3  Progress — J. 

Doolittle. 
The  Republican  Party  the  Result  of  Southoru  Aggression 

C.  B.  Sedgwick. 

Admission  of  Kansas— M.  J.  Parrott. 
Federalism  Unmasked — Daniel  R.  Goodloe. 
The  Slavery  Question— C.  C.  Washburn. 
Thomas  Corwin's  Great  Speech,  Abridged. 
The  Issues— The  Dred  fccott  Decision— Tho  Parties— Isn 

Washburn,  Jun. 
Tariff— Samuel  S.  Blair. 

The  Rise  and  Fall  of  the  Democratic  Party— K.  S.  Bingha 
Da  Defence  of  the  North  and  Northern  Laborers — H.  Uuoii 

TWENTY- FOUK    PAGES. 

Slavery  in  the  Territories — Jacob  Collamor. 

THIRTY-TWO    PAGES. 

Thomas  Corwin's  Great  Speech. 

Success  of  the  Calhoun  Revolution  :  The  Constitution  Chanj 

and  Slavery  Nationalized  by  the  Usurpations  of  tho 

premc  Court, — James  M.  Ashley. 
The  Barbarism  of  Slavery — Charles  Simmer 

GERMAN. 

EIGHT  PAGES. 
The  Demands  of  the  South— The  Republican  Party  Vi: 

dicatcd — Abraham  Lincoln 
Free  Homes  for  Free  Men— G.  A.  Grow. 
Shall  the  Territories  be  Africanized— James  Harlau. 
Who  have  Violated  Compromises— John  Hickman. 
The  Homestead  Bill— Us  Friends  and  its  Foes— W.  Wind 
Douglas  and  Popular  Sovereignty — Carl  Scimrz. 
The.  Homestead  Bill— M.  S.  Wilkinson. 
The  Iii.rO.insm  01  rrfa*er#— Ovvttfl  Lovejo/. 
Southern  Sectionalism— John  Hickman. 
Equably  of  Rights  in  the  Territories  -Harrison  G.  Blake 
The  Claims  of  Agriculture— John  Carey. 
SIXTEEN    PAGES. 


Seizure  of  the  Arsenals  at  Harper's  Ferry,  Va.,  and  Lib* 
Mo. ,  and  in  Vindication  of  the  Republican  I  arty— Ly 
Trumbull. 

Tho  State  of  the  Country— W.  H.  Soward. 

Land?  for  the  Landless— A  Tract. 

Election  of  Speaker— H.  Winter  Davis. 

THIRTY-TWO   PAGES. 

The  Barbarism  of  Slavery— Charles  Sumncr. 

And  all  Republican  Speeches  as  delivered. 

During  the  Presidential  Campaign,  Speeches  and  Documents  will  be  supplied  at  the  I 
reduced  prices  :  per  100-8  pages  50  cents,  16  pages  $1,  and  larger  documents  m  propoi 
Address  either  of  the  above  Committee.  _JJL-  HARRINGTON, 


PRESIDENTIAL   CAMPAIGN   OF    1860. 


REPUBLICAN  EXECUTIVE  CONGRESSIONAL  COMMITTEE. 


EON.  PRESTON  KING,  N.  Y.,  Chairman. 
«      J.  W.  GRIMES,  IOWA. 
"      L.  F.  S.  FOSTER,  CONN. 

On  the  part  of  the  Senate. 

"      B.  B.  WASHBURNE,  ILLINOIS. 


HON.  JOHN  COVODE.  PENN..  Treasurer. 

"       E.  GK  SPAULDING,  N.  Y. 

«       J.  B.  ALLEY,  MASS. 
•  «      DAVID  KILGORE,  INDIANA. 

«      J.  L.  N.  STRATTON,  N.  J. 

On  the  part  of  the  House  of  Reps. 


The  Committee  are  prepared  to  furnish  the  following  speeches : 

Hon.  H.  Wilson,  Mass.:  Territorial  Slave  Code. 
«    John  P.  Hale,  N.  H. 

"  Abraham  Lincoln,  111. :  The  Demands  of 
the  South — The  Republican  Party  Via  * 
dicated. 


EIGHT   PAGES. 

Ion.  W.  H.  Seward,  N.  Y. :  State  of  the  Country. 
"    W.  H.  Seward,  N.  Y. :  Rochester  Speech. 
"    G.  A.  Grow,  Penn. :  Free  Homes  for  Free 
Men. 


James  Harlan,  Iowa :  Shall  the  Territories 

be  Africanized  ? 
John  Hickman,  Penn. :  Who  have  Violated 

Compromises. 
B.  F.  Wade,  Ohio :    Invasion  of  Harper's 

Ferry. 
G.  W.  Scranton  and  J.  H.  Campbell,  Penn.: 

The  Speakership. 
F.  P.  Blair,  Mo.,  Address  at  Cincinnati : 

Colonization  and  Commerce. 
"     Orris  S.  Ferry,  Conn, 
jands  for  the  Landless — A  Tract. 

SIXTEEN   PAGES. 

Ion.  Lyman  Trumbull,  111.:  Seizure  of  the  Ar 
senals  at  Harper's  Ferry,  Va.  and  Liberty, 
Mo.,  and  in  Vindication  of  the  Republi 
can  Party. 

B.  F.  Wade,  Ohio :  Property  in  the  Terri 
tories. 

C.  H.  Van  Wyck,  N.  Y. :  True  Democracy- 
History  Vindicated. 

J.  J.  Perry,  Me. :  "  Posting  the  Books  be 
tween  the  North  and  the  South." 

J.  R.  Deolittle,  Wis. :  The  Calhoun  Revo 
lution — Its  Basis  and  its  Progress. 


Carl  Schurz,  Wis.:  Douglas  and  Popular  Sover 
eignty. 

TWENTY-FOUR  PAGES. 
Hon.  Jacob  Collamer,  Vermont. 
"    Thomas  Corwin,  of  Ohio,  32  pp.,  $2. 

GERMAN. 

EIGHT   PAGES. 
Hon.  G.  A.  Grow,  Penn. :  Free  Homes  for  Free 

Men. 
"    James  Harlan,  Iowa:  Shall  the  Territories 

be  Africanized? 
"    John  Hickman,  Penn.:  Who  Have  Violated 

Compromises. 

Carl  Schurz,  Wis. :  Douglas  and  Popular  Sover 
eignty. 

SIXTEEN   PAGES. 

Hon.  Lyman  Trumbull,  111.:  Seizure  of  the  Arse 
nals  at  Harper's  Ferry,  Va.  and  Liberty, 
Mo.,  and  in  Vindication  of  the  Republi 
can  Party. 
"    W.  H.  Seward,  N.  Y.:    The  State  of  the 

Country. 
Lands  for  the  Landless — A  Tract. 


During-  the  Presidential  Campaign,  Speeches  and  Documents  will  be  supplied  at  the  follow- 
jg  reduced  prices : 

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Twenty-four  "  "  "  1.50 

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